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by wsostt 4y ago
Not OP, but I doubt it. These are individual mandates with mandatory minimums in the tens of millions of dollars for a small shop.
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by wsostt 4y ago
Clients are heard and in charge. These are smart people who will terminate the relationship if their goals aren’t being met. This isn’t your retirement account. These are accounts in the 9+ figure range.
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by wsostt 4y ago
You’re not considering that a lot of active managers are helping clients define bespoke investment strategies that suit their assets and liabilities. They set a strategy, pick a benchmark, and invest. In some cases, a portion of those inves
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by wsostt 4y ago
I've been doing this for a long time now. I present the candidate with a function (on paper) that compiles and runs. It does the job but it does everything poorly: an embedded connection string, leaves the connection open, no error han
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by wsostt 5y ago
A certain amount of information can be gleaned from job descriptions from a company’s careers page.
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by wsostt 5y ago
Neither by default. I look to be convinced that they've implemented containers because it made sense for their technical architecture or strategy. I have a vendor who pitched their new "cloud-native" re-platforming project an
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by wsostt 5y ago
I agree. I've seen containerization mentioned by many vendors in the last year. It adds another layer of questions to vet like "do they possibly know what they're doing?"
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by wsostt 5y ago
A "water garden". No joke. https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DataLake.html
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by wsostt 5y ago
The example week is quite concerning. She’s called multiple times for things that have no impact or importance. That needs to be fixed immediately. My company has strict rules on what is allowed to escalate to on-call and the SLAs to handle
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by wsostt 5y ago
Technology is still central to "tech-as-a-cost-center" enterprises. I'm absolutely a cost center and contribute to the firm's market differentiation by using technology effectively.
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by wsostt 5y ago
Banks have provisional accounts which they use to make customers whole. They don’t know where your check went either but they’ll make you whole while they figure it out. Your check will be credited to their provisional account if they find
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by wsostt 5y ago
Seems likely that the value may only be realized in hindsight. The post-docs saying it would have saved them time don’t say they would have paid before they realized that. I wonder too if the time they spent was more valuable and enriching
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by wsostt 5y ago
Why’s that relevant? The payment is divided by the terms of the agreement with the author and associates. It was mutually agreed by everyone in writing.
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by wsostt 5y ago
I’ve taken this approach in the past.
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by wsostt 5y ago
Heads up on your landing page. I didn’t know what I was supposed to type into the search box. Category, item, zip code?
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by wsostt 5y ago
Gall’s law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working
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by wsostt 5y ago
This is obviously true but most people DCA into the market because they’re investing money as they earn it. The put $X I to their brokerage account on payday and buy more indexed ETFs.
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by wsostt 5y ago
Wrong. That's a software switch, not physical hardware.
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by wsostt 5y ago
YouTube Premium is riddled with the same type of user tracking Firefox is implementing. Firefox Premium would probably do the same.
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by wsostt 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. Just purchased the audiobook.
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by wsostt 5y ago
“ Are you asleep yet? The developers are. You promise them an intellectually stimulating work environment and what they end up with is drudgery.” A 15-minute standup does not nullify a stimulating work environment.
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by wsostt 5y ago
I have thought about this before. As someone who would never use Facebook, I want to judge the Facebook—centric view of the web, but then I think about how I live my entire online existence around an RSS reader (Feedly in my case). There’s
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Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases(reuters.com)
306 points by wsostt 5y ago|149 comments
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by wsostt 5y ago
I'll always have a soft spot for Classic ASP[0]. Makes me dream of a simpler time developing CRUD apps. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages
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by wsostt 5y ago
All bugs need to have workarounds in case it can't be fixed by some deadline. A group works on fixing the bug while another group makes some tentative plans to implement a workaround. Bugs can have deadlines for legal, reputational, or
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by wsostt 5y ago
Read the tweet
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by wsostt 5y ago
Canceled my photography plan last week. No fee.
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by wsostt 6y ago
Yes! I worked at a well-known regional company about 15 years ago and we built one of these ourselves. It would track servers, software, packages, etc... You could quickly see which web servers were running which versions of .Net and then d
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by wsostt 6y ago
So many. I’m a product owner so I’m interested in a lot of things that come across HN: management resources, new technology, trending ideas and concepts, and other stuff that I didn’t know I needed to know. The real value comes from the th
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by wsostt 6y ago
Borrowing rates have never been lower and corporate debt issuance has never been higher. Companies are investing.

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